[Info-vax] product not installing

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-10-01 kl. 23:38, skrev Bill Cunningham:
> "John Reagan" <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cd0c1348-e077-4c29-911f-0be7048f5060 at googlegroups.com...
>> On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 3:55:40 PM UTC-4, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <> wrote in message
>>> news:nsk01p$u6g$1...
>>>
>>>> VMS doesn't "has ZIP", but it can be downloaded. Sometimes there are
>>>> a copies on the same wen page where the CC kit was in the first place.
>>>
>>>     I logged into 'system' and I noticed that. There was no zip or unip
>>> for
>>> vax at the download site HP gave me. It is accessable by ftp, sftp,
>>> dropbox
>>> and a couple other ways. They don't want you giving this out per license
>>> agreement. I guess they give it to everyone individually.
>>>
>>>     The C compiler pages to install is 100K blocks. This I am supposing
>>> has
>>> nothing to do with modparams.dat and autogen. Because it speaks of using
>>> 'authorize'. Show device sys$sysdevice is used.
>>>
>>>     Now is this not a global pages or sections setting? What kind of
>>> settings are changed by UAF> Authorize? I've never used it and I keep
>>> reading and can simply copy the typed words, but IDK what I'm doing?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>> There are several issues that the installation guide talks about:
>>
>> 1 - The actual number of disk blocks needed to install the compiler, the
>> additional stuff in the help file, etc.
>> 2 - The additional "global pages"/"global sections" if you decided to
>> install the compiler SHARED.  In that case, VMS keeps additional
>> information
>> in memory to reduce the overhead of repeated compilations by multiple
>> people
>> on the system at the same time.  You don't have to install the compiler
>> SHARED
>> for it to work.  It is the global pages/global sections that may require
>> you
>> to modify MODPARAMS.DAT, run AUTOGEN, and reboot.
>
>     OK John. IDK if I'm getting this right. sys$device...

sys$sysdevice.

I do not understand your issues. You are "only" installing the
C compiler, and that should be a totaly problem-free operation
on a newly installed VMS system.


> is not defined I can
> see. So I typed sh dev dua0: which I am mounted on.
>
> Freeblocks are 2475639 then there are Tran blocks which if I remember right...

"Remember right" ???

Why not just copy the output from the command here??

You are doing things *way* harder then needed...


> is about 128. Then mnt count which is 1.
>
> Now when I tried dir/size sys$library:dcltables.exe the size returned was
> 571. IDK if I'm on the right track here.
>     So I think I might be off on something here. I don't want to install
> shared. How can I manage that?
>
> Thx
> Bill
>
>